Jürgen Altmann

Profile
Jürgen Altmann (PhD) is a physicist and peace researcher (retired) at TU Dortmund University, Germany. Since 1985 he has studied scientific-technical problems of disarmament. An experimental focus is automatic sensor systems for co-operative verification of disarmament and peace agreements and for IAEA safeguards for an underground final repository. The second focus is assessment of new military technologies and preventive arms control, including verification. Studies have dealt with “non-lethal” weapons, civilian and military technologies in aviation, military uses of microsystems technology and of nanotechnology, confidence and security building measures for cyber forces, armed uncrewed vehicles and autonomous weapon systems. He co-founded and chairs the German Research Association for Science, Disarmament and International Security (FONAS) and has authored book chapters on the relationship of natural science, armament and disarmament. He teaches a lecture "Physics and Technology of the Verification of Arms-Limitation Agreements".

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